The Collège de France hosts the videos of papers delivered at the 2014 Seminar in Thomas Römer’s series The Hebrew Bible and Its Contexts, May 19-20, 2014:
From Gods to Man: Angels, Demons and Other…
The videos are available for download in *.mov format.
Introduction – Collège de France
Lionel Marti, “Angels or Demons? Divine Beings Seen through the Eyes of Assyrian Wise Men”
Diana Edelman, “Living with Ancestral Spirits in Judah in the iron Age and Persian Period”
Brian Schmidt, “Was There an Early Israelite Pandemonium?”
Dominique Charpin, “Intercession in Mesopotamian Society”
Marc Philonenko, “The Angels of Heaven and Elements of the Universe”
David Hamidovic, “The Multiple Identities of Metatron in Ancient Judaism: Man, Angel, and God”
Christoph Uehlinger, “Why the Figure of the Revealing Angel?”
Jean-Marie Durand, “The Personal God of the Amorite King and the Success of His Subjects”
Hans-Peter Mathys, “The King: A Key Figure Between God/the Gods and Man”
Dany Nocquet, “The Figure of the Prophet’s Man-Guide in Ezekiel 40-48”
Nils Heessel, “Mesopotamian Demons: Alien and yet Native Powers?”
Youri Volokhine, “Infernal Bes Gods”
Valérie Nicolet-Anderson, “Paul’s Pantheon: An Embarrassment of Riches in the Spirit World”
Bernd Janowski, “The Scapegoat: Notes on a Demoniac Figure from the Old Testament”
Jean Kellens, “Figures of Divine Subordination in Mazdaism”
Thomas Römer, “The Need for the Devil”
Thomas Römer, From Gods to Man: Angels, Demons and Other”